Automatic weather station installed at IIT Goa Campus

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As part of a climate change project collaboration with the City University of New York (CUNY) and Bronx Community College and IIT Goa installed a solar-powered automatic weather station at IIT campus in the Goa Engineering College on Tuesday. With this IIT Goa has become the only Campus in the state with such a station, which will automatically share received data with stakeholders through online and Smartphone app platforms. Prof. Sharad Sinha of IIT Goa said that the data from monitoring stations will be utilized to carry out research on climate change & air quality. An outreach with farmers & other local communities will be planned using the data in the future.